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noun

Crus n. (pl. crura) (Anat.)

(a)

That part of the hind limb between the femur, or thigh, and the ankle, or tarsus; the shank.

(b)

Often applied, especially in the plural, to parts which are supposed to resemble a pair of legs; as, the crura of the diaphragm, a pair of muscles attached to it; crura cerebri, two bundles of nerve fibers in the base of the brain, connecting the medulla and the forebrain.

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Etymology of 'Crus'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Crus" Quotes from Famous Books

... excludit mundum, includit Deum. Deus est turris etiam in turre: turris libertatis in turre angustiae: Turris quietis in turre molestice.... Arctari non potest qui in ipsa Dei infinitate incarceratus spatiatur.... Nil crus sentit in nervo si animus sit in coelo: nil corpus patitur in ergastulo, si anima sit in Christo." If Lovelace has the advantage in fancy, Prynne has it as clearly in depth of sentiment. There could be little doubt which of the parties represented by these ...

— Among My Books - First Series • James Russell Lowell

... continue expanding and plunge into the thalamus and corpus striatum. Their first appearance above the pons (marked in the engraving by the word Pedunc.) is usually called the crura or thighs of the brain. The right crus, running through the thalamus, expands by successive additions into the right hemisphere, and the left crus into the left hemisphere, of the cerebrum, and the two hemispheres unite together on the median line ...

— Buchanan's Journal of Man, May 1887 - Volume 1, Number 4 • Various

Words linked to "Crus" : leg, limb